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Bhagavad Gītā 14.13

BG 14.13

अप्रकाशोऽप्रवृत्तिश्च प्रमादो मोह एव च।तमस्येतानि जायन्ते विवृद्धे कुरुनन्दन

aprakāśho ’pravṛittiśh cha pramādo moha eva cha tamasy etāni jāyante vivṛiddhe kuru-nandana

Darkness, stagnation, folly, and infatuation are the results of the dominance of ignorance, O joy of the Kuru clan!

Translated by Shri Purohit Swami

Darkness, inertia, carelessness, and delusion—these arise when Tamas is predominant, O Arjuna.

Translated by Swami Sivananda

Word meanings (from the gita/gita dataset)

aprakāśhaḥ—nescience; apravṛittiḥ—inertia; cha—and; pramādaḥ—negligence; mohaḥ—delusion; eva—indeed; cha—also; tamasi—mode of ignorance; etāni—these; jāyante—manifest; vivṛiddhe—when dominates; kuru-nandana—the joy of the Kurus, Arjun

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Cite as: Bhagavad Gītā 14.13, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/BG/14.13), after https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/gita/gita@main (gita/gita on GitHub, Unlicense).

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